wkt@rodos2.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) (02/20/91)
This is a recollection from some email I received a while ago.
To get a Minix boot image onto a floppy under MS-DOS:
>debug
-n image.bin Name the file
-l Load it, it starts at cs:100
-w cs:100 0 0 2c4 Write from address cs:100 to sector 0 on
drive 0 (A:), write out 0x2c4 sectors (==360K)
-q
N.B. I haven't tried this, but after reading the debug manual, it seems
a valid method.
Please send success/fail stories to comp.os.minix, please!
Warren Toomey VK1XWT, losing CPUs.
Deep in the bowels of ADFA Comp Science.
`I'm a bit thingy at the moment' - Anaemic friend.cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager) (02/21/91)
In article <2286@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>, wkt@rodos2.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) writes: > This is a recollection from some email I received a while ago. >>debug > -n image.bin Name the file > -l Load it, it starts at cs:100 > -w cs:100 0 0 2c4 Write from address cs:100 to sector 0 on > drive 0 (A:), write out 0x2c4 sectors (==360K) > -q Nearly right. I don't think the length of the write can be specified like this, though; it has to be in the CX register. -rcx :2c4 just before the w command. -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Bob Eager | University of Kent at Canterbury | +44 227 764000 ext 7589 -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------